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Alice Nakhimovsky

Alice Nakhimovsky is distinguished professor of Jewish studies and professor of Russian and Eurasian studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America (Indiana University Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Write a Modern Letter, Live a Modern Life

Winter 2021

Write a Modern Letter, Live a Modern Life

Alice Nakhimovsky, Roberta Newman

Imagine that you’re a woman living in a shtetl in 1900: what do you say in a letter to your husband in America if you think he’s cheating on you?

A Stolen Seat

Fall 2019

A Stolen Seat

Doba-Mera Medvedeva, Alice Nakhimovsky, Michael Beizer

“Good Shabbos—you’re sitting in my seat” takes on a whole new meaning when it’s your brother- in-law talking. From a Russian Jewish diary, with an introduction by Alice Nakhimovsky and Michael Beizer.

Sole Searcher

Winter 2011

Sole Searcher

Alice Nakhimovsky

The author of The Dybbuk lives on in a new biography.

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